![]() And even though it aims to occupy the same holiday-specific space as movies like The Nightmare Before Christmas, when it first came out in 1993 its own makers apparently saw the mediocrity oozing from its pores and released it in July so that it could be neatly forgotten by Halloween - the holiday the movie is actually about.īut despite its aggressive averageness, this grifter of a film has managed to find an allegiance of alleged humans who desire to rewatch annually it in the days surrounding Halloween. Its shambling plot - in which three children-eating witches are brought back from the dead by a frustrated teen virgin - is about procuring emergent post-pubescent sex and is peppered with vague hints of pedophilia. ![]() The film underwhelms in spectacular fashion, operating on a level where it's never silly enough to get its own joke yet doesn't have enough meat on its bones to qualify as an actual horror movie. Hocus Pocus is a throbbing, unmitigated crime against cinema.
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